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1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Vienna series in theoretical biology
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Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. INTRODUCTION -- Theoretical and methodological tools for comparison and evolutionary modeling of communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel -- II. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: CONCEPTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS -- On reading signs: some differences between us and the others / Ruth Garrett Millikan -- Primitive content, translation, and the emergence of meaning in animal communication / William F. Harms -- Underpinnings for a theory of communicative evolution / D. Kimbrough Oller -- III. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS -- Social and cultural learning in the evolution of human communication / Luc Steels -- Role of learning and development in language evolution: a connectionist perspective / Morten H. Christiansen, Rick Dale -- Repeated patterns in behavior and other biological phenomena / Magnus S. Magnusson -- IV. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE BASIS -- Social processes in the evolution of complex cognition and communication / Charles T. Snowdon -- Human infant crying as an animal communication system: insights from an assessment/management approach / Donald H. Owings, Debra M. Zeifman -- Evolution of communication from an Avian perspective / Irene M. Pepperberg -- Cephalopod skin displays: from concealment to communication / Jennifer A. Mather -- V. PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGE -- Evolution of language: from signals to symbols to system / Chris Sinha -- Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication / Peter Gärdenfors -- Language, music, and laughter in evolutionary perspective / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Kin selection and "mother tongues": a neglected component in language evolution / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language / James R. Hurford -- How far is language beyond our grasp? A response to Hurford / Michael A. Arbib -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Directions for research in comparative communication systems / D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Greibel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication -- History.
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Communication. |
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History. |
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Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Oller, D. Kimbrough.
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Griebel, Ulrike.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evolution of communication systems. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004 0262151111 (DLC) 2004042788 (OCoLC)54543697 |
| ISBN |
9780262281010 (electronic book) |
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0262281015 (electronic book) |
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